Original French: Nous nous réjouissons, au moment où nous célébrons ces deux glorieux anniversaires, de t’annoncer, cher peuple, la bonne nouvelle de la découverte du pétrole et du gaz, de bonne qualité et en quantités abondantes, dans la région de Talsint dans les provinces de l’Oriental qui nous sont si chères.

Despite everything else, we have in fact managed to do some work in terms of the ministry and its oil and gas exploration and production. We have continued to invest in increasing the country’s oil and gas reserves.

Just rejoice at that news and congratulate our forces and the marines... Rejoice.

Moreover, Middle East oil was a great prize.

We have every reason to rejoice when there are so many gains and when favorable conditions abound on every hand. The end is not yet in sight, but it can not be far away. The road before us is shorter than the road behind.

We are lucky to live in an age in which we are still making discoveries.

A great discovery solves a great problem, but there is a grain of discovery in the solution of any problem. Your problem may be modest, but if it challenges your curiosity and brings into play your inventive faculties, and if you solve it by your own means, you may experience the tension and enjoy the triumph of discovery.

We in America have been very fortunate. We've been blessed with a wonderful country and everything and wonderful resources.

The news of the discovery spread fast all over the country, and inquisitive enquiries mingled with congratulations from this moment became the daily programme.

We have incredible archaeological sites in this country and we frequently recover new and exciting data.

'Tis a good Symptom that we are got upon a right Scent, when it leads not only to the Thing first sought for; but also to many other useful Discoveries, as we see this does.

Let us rejoice and let us sing and dance and ring in the new: Hail Atlantis!

I love Germany so much I'm glad there are two of them.

... the discoveries, rich and romantic and utterly unexpected as they were, have given the North-West a world-wide advertisement of inestimable value. And this is an age of advertisement.
Public opinion about such discoveries always passes through two stages—a period of universal credulity, followed by a period of universal incredulity.